University IT

TechSmith SnagIt

TechSmith Snagit is a screen capture and recording software for Windows and macOS that allows users to create visual content such as how-to guides, tutorials, and videos.

TechSmith Camtasia

TechSmith Camtasia is a screen recording and video editing software that allows users to capture and edit videos for various purposes.

Simulia Abaqus

SIMULIA Abaqus is a finite element analysis (FEA) software that helps engineers simulate complex problems in a variety of industries. Abaqus is used for research, development, and manufacturing, and can model a wide range of materials and geometries, including:
Metals
Rubber and polymers
Reinforced concrete
Glass and ceramics
Crushable or resilient foam
Geotechnical materials like soil and rock

PTC Creo/Pro Engineer

Creo is the 3D CAD solution that helps you accelerate product innovation to build better products faster. Easy to learn, Creo uses a model-based approach to seamlessly take you from the earliest phases of product design to manufacturing, and beyond. Creo combines powerful, proven functionality with new technologies, including generative design, real-time simulation, advanced manufacturing, IIoT, and augmented reality.

PTC Mathcad

PTC Mathcad Prime allows you to solve, analyze, document, and share your engineering calculations. You need a comprehensive yet intuitive application that performs accurate calculations, enables traceability, protects intellectual property, and allows you to show your work.

Document your calculations in an engineering notebook with natural mathematical notation and units intelligence. Show your work using rich formatting options alongside plots, text, and images in a single, professionally formatted document.

Choose PTC Mathcad Prime because spreadsheets just can’t compete. Mathcad visually represents math in an intuitive way, making it easy to define, understand, and manipulate engineering calculations with the whiteboard-like user interface.

Parallels Desktop for Mac (Academic)

Parallels allows users to run Windows side by side with macOS on a Macintosh device. This can be used to run Windows applications, such as Excel and accounting software, as well as classic Windows games.

Bluebeam

Bluebeam is a software that helps construction, engineering, and architecture teams collaborate on projects and manage documents. All plans include access to Bluebeam Revu for Windows desktop and Bluebeam Cloud on web and mobile. You can mix and match plans for users with different needs.

Avid

Avid is a company that develops software and hardware for creating audio and video content, including:

Avid Media Composer
A video editing software that’s used by professionals in the film, television, and broadcast industries. It’s known for its advanced tools for managing large amounts of footage and working collaboratively.
Pro Tools
A music production software that includes tools for recording, editing, mixing, and creating music. It’s considered an industry standard.
Avid Link
A free social community app that allows artists to connect and collaborate with each other.
Sibelius
A music notation software that’s used by composers, arrangers, and educators. It includes a Worksheet Creator and Classroom Control features.

AutoDesk (AutoCAD)

Autodesk is a software company that provides 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software for a variety of industries.

Apple Pro Apps Bundle for Education

The Pro Apps Bundle is a collection of five industry-leading apps from Apple that deliver powerful creative tools for video editors and musicians.

Pro Apps Bundle for Education: (includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Motion, Compressor, MainStage, Logic Pro)

The Pro Apps Bundle is a collection of five industry-leading apps from Apple that deliver powerful creative tools for video editors and musicians.

Affinity

Affinity is designed for creative professionals and enthusiasts. It’s also used by educators to help students learn creative software and digital literacy skills

Adobe

Adobe specializes in software for the creation and publication of a wide range of content, including graphics, photography, illustration, animation, multimedia/video, motion pictures, and print.

Adobe Acrobat Pro can be licensed through a subscription or by purchasing a perpetual license.  All other Adobe products are licensed through subscription only.

BioRender

BioRender is a web-based app to help create scientific figures up to 50X faster than traditional tools

BioRender combines a library of over 50,000 scientifically accurate, expert-validated life science icons and templates with intuitive drag-and-drop functionality. Create professional-quality figures in minutes – no drawing skills required!

With BioRender, you can:

• Create figures for all your visual needs like your publications, posters, and presentations
• Pair figures with data collected from your experiments
• Communicate your research at the next level

E-Prime

E-Prime provides an easy-to-use environment for computerized experiment design, data collection, and analysis.

New with E-Prime 3.0

Minitab

Minitab can visualize, analyze and harness the power of your data to solve your toughest challenges. Minitab has the market’s most trusted statistical tools to get the most out of your data, discover trends, predict patterns, uncover hidden relationships between variables, visualize data interactions and identify important factors to answer even the most challenging of questions.
Enjoy new levels of productivity and collaboration with Minitab accessible through both your desktop and on the cloud with our web app. With the power of statistics and data analysis on your side and accessible from anywhere, the possibilities are truly endless.

MestReNova (MNova)

Mnova is a multivendor software suite designed for combined NMR, LC/GC/MS and Electronic & Vibrational Spectroscopic techniques. The new version Mnova 14 is a major release incorporating many new features in most plugins. We have integrated three new products Mnova ElViS, BioHOS and StereoFitter and fixed several bugs.

Tableau Creator

Tableau helps people see and understand data. Visual analytics platform is transforming the way people use data to solve problems. With Tableau Creator, discover insights faster by combining a powerful suite of products for visual data prep, best-in-class analytics, and secure collaboration to support your end-to-end analytical workflow.

Microsoft Windows for Student Use Only

Windows 11 Education is only available for education customers in volume licensing programs. Windows 11 Education includes features from Windows 11 Enterprise that are ideal for advanced security, and the comprehensive device control and management needs of today’s educational institution. Windows 11 Education also enables simplified deployment in the education space; this edition provides a direct path for many devices to upgrade from Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro.

This license is for use on personally owned devices.  I you need assistance with installation on a departmentally owned machine, please contact your IT department.

SOLIDWORKS

SOLIDWORKS is a 3D CAD Design and analysis software, and a solid modeler that utilizes a parametric feature based approach to create models and assemblies.

GraphPad Prism

GraphPad Prism combines scientific graphing, comprehensive curve fitting (nonlinear regression), understandable statistics, and data organization. While it won’t replace a heavy-duty statistics program, Prism lets you easily perform basic statistical tests commonly used by laboratory and clinical researchers. Prism offers t tests, nonparametric comparisons, one-, two- and three-way ANOVA, analysis of contingency tables, and survival analysis. Analysis choices are presented in clear language that avoids unnecessary statistical jargon.

Mathematica

Mathematica is a software package that is ideal for communicating scientific ideas, whether visualization of a concept in an introductory level course or creating a simulation of a new idea related to research. Mathematica is commonly used in mathematical sciences, physical sciences, business and finance, life sciences, engineering, and computer science.

• Faculty, staff, and students are eligible to use products on campus or personal machines
• Agreement supports use of products in instruction and academic research
• Licensing is renewed annually and is available only to active students, faculty, and staff

SAS

The SAS System is an integrated suite of software for enterprise-wide information delivery. Applications include executive information systems; data entry, retrieval, and management; report writing and graphics; statistical and mathematical analysis; business planning, forecasting, and decision support; operations research and project management; statistical quality improvement; computer performance evaluation; and applications development.

SAS is available to enrolled students, instructional faculty and researchers engaged in original academic research work on both university and personally-owned computers (home use) are allowed to use the license.

Institutional research and other administrative uses related to the operation or improvement of a university or at an associated healthcare institution including patient care and sponsored research are not included within the scope of the license.

SPSS / AMOS

SPSS Statistics is a statistical and data management package for analysts and researchers, providing a broad range of capabilities for the entire analytical process, including powerful statistics; data access, preparation, and management tools; high-quality tabular and graphical output, and a variety of reporting methods. University licenses include:

STATA

Stata is a complete, integrated statistical package that provides the tools needed for data analysis, data management, and graphics. Stat/Transfer converts data between different spreadsheet and statistical programs, including Stata, Excel, JMP, Matlab, Minitab, SPSS, and SAS.

MATLAB

MATLAB is an integrated technical computing environment that combines numeric computation, advanced graphics and visualization, and a high-level programming language. MATLAB is used in a variety of application areas including signal and image processing, control system design, finance, engineering, and medical research.

Amira Software

Amira Software is a powerful, comprehensive, and versatile 2D–5D solution for visualizing, analyzing and understanding life science and biomedical research data from many image modalities, including Optical and Electron Microscopy, CT, MRI and other imaging techniques. With incredible speed and flexibility, Amira Software supports advanced 2D–5D bioimaging workflows in research areas ranging from structural and cellular biology to tissue imaging, neuroscience, preclinical imaging and bioengineering. From any 3D image data, including time series and multi-channel, Amira Software delivers a comprehensive range of data visualization, processing and analysis capabilities. Amira Software allows life science and biomedical researchers to gain invaluable insights into their data, at different scales and from any modality.

ChemDraw

This chemical drawing program features chemical warnings, graphical file formats, structure perspective tool, floating periodic table and character map, LabArt, multi-page docs, stereochemistry, atom numbering, structure and style templates, a large choice of bonds and arrows, full color drawing, MS Office integration, improved graphic display and image, customizable arrow tools, color-faded shapes, and terminal carbon labeling.

LabVIEW

LabVIEW is used for test, measurement, and control. LabVIEW allows development of intuitive block diagrams for I/O, analysis, and presentation needs. LabVIEW performs many functions from data acquisition to advanced embedded software development. The University’s LabVIEW license may be used for both teaching and academic research.

ArcGIS

ArcGIS is a powerful desktop and server tool for mapping and analysis through the application of geographic knowledge. ArcGIS can perform spatial analysis while combining independent tabular data layers with maps, imagery and 3D geographic features. ArcGIS will be available on the CIRC platform for intensive research applications. ArcGIS also comes with web apps and device apps to share your work with others in across the University. These apps run on smartphones, tablets, web browsers, and desktops, and support a range of tasks and workflows. Under this license, all standard Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) modules are included.

EndNote

EndNote organizes references, images, PDFs, and other files in your personal EndNote database. It also imports citations from online databases that you have searched and creates and formats bibliographies automatically.

Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching

Azure Dev Tools for Teaching is a Microsoft program that supports technical education by providing access to Microsoft software for learning, teaching and research purposes. University of Rochester students and faculty can download some Microsoft tools and applications through the website at no cost, including Visual Studio Professional, Windows servers, and SQL servers.

Qualtrics

The Qualtrics XM is a user-friendly, feature rich, web-based survey tool similar to Survey Monkey, which allows users to build, distribute, and analyze online surveys, collaborate in real-time, and export data in multiple formats. Qualtrics Research Suite should only be used for work related to your University of Rochester employment and/or academic projects related to your UR Research or pursuit of a degree.

University of Rochester Qualtrics license features:

• Unlimited:
  • Responses
  • Questions per project
  • Survey projects per user
• Survey’s can contain customized:
  • Branding
  • Branching
  • Skip
  • Display logic, etc.
• Embedded data
• All questions except file upload & signature
• Email, QR code, and social media distributions
• Auto thank yous and reminders
• Export options:
  • File formats:
    • CVS
    • TSV
  • SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences)
  • Tableau
  • Google Drive
• Basic reports / graphs
• Collaboration with other users

Microsoft Office

Faculty, staff, and students can download the latest version of Microsoft 365 (Formerly Microsoft Office) free of charge as part of the Microsoft Campus Agreement. You can install Microsoft 365 on up to five computers or devices, either University owned or personally owned. The package includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, and Access (PC only) for Windows and Mac.

JMP

JMP dynamically links statistics with graphics to interactively explore, understand and visualize data. Includes a comprehensive set of statistical tools, experimental designs, and statistical quality control functions.

JMP is available to enrolled students, instructional faculty and researchers engaged in original academic research work on both university and personally-owned computers (home use) are allowed to use the license. Institutional research and other administrative uses related to the operation or improvement of a university or at an associated healthcare institution including patient care and sponsored research are not included within the scope of the license.